"Someone just asked me whether, now that Novell's become buddies with Microsoft, I'll be turning away from Novell/SUSE as one of my favorite Linux distributions. My answer is no. I'm sticking with SUSE Linux on both my desktops and servers. Here's why."

Maybe things have changed during the last year, but I wouldn't call YaST a convenience.

It has the promise of convenience to it; certainly. I mean it is shiny and has an asthetic, calming, "grandmother bringing you a cup of tea and a biscuit" quality to it, but once you dig in, it always leaves you wishing it were different. At least it does me.